2009. 12400 miles. Regular service and oil change. Last one 400 miles ago... :-(
Run on fully synthetic 10W40 oils.

I'm not sure if its a lot of work, according to manufacturer set comes with everything needed to fit to the bike, so shouldn't be too much. Painting - yes it could be difficult but my mate is running paintshop so it will be cheaper for me. I think biggest problem with Dottori set is price of replacement parts. On other hand low fender cost only 150 pound and comes with all fixings, while rally raid low fender comes without fixings and fixings are quite expensive from what i remember.

Australian set looks good, but price is rather unacceptable for me.

Trying to organize trip to see 990 ADV this saturday... Still not sure what to do - heart telling me 690, but brain saying 990 ADV :-(

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New bike! With limited amount of green lanes available in my area and lot of tarmac i'm doing i have choose big option. So far so good - ater setting the suspension to "sport" bike is handling like a road bike on the tarmac and offroad when dry i can go faster then on my tenere... in the mud i'm expecting some problems as power is quite brutal. But will see, its still on Pirelli scorpions but planning to change for mitas E07.

Tenere engine will be stripped down in August with help of my friend. I will let you know what will be the outcome of this operation.

hey, nice bike! wonder what is KTM reliability when compared to yamaha.
How is the handling? center of gravity good?

I have done some research and i know common issues and none of them scared me more then my broken down gearbox in my Yamaha :-)

In regards to handling - very different bike then Tenere - because center of gravity is low it handles like a road bike on the tarmac. Plus the power - more then enough. On tenere with my preffered speed on tarmac i was using pretty much 90-100% of the power all time... here i'm using abut 70% for normal fast twisties. Oh... and it does power wheelies from the 2nd gear :-)

In offroad - It looks lower and heavier then Tenere, and overall less offroadie. But... it's only about 10 kilo's heavier and suspension travel is the same on the front and even better (by only 10mm) at the back. Plus its WP suspension fully adjustable.
It requires different riding technique - Tenere was going through pretty much everything with the front suspension, and it was bottoming very often with rear due to poor shock and 17 inches wheel.
KTM if it will bottom down it will be with front, as more weight seems to be on the front and rear seems to be more stiff.

So when riding tenere you can do late braking and you don't want to go through deep holes on power as rear will struggle.
On KTM you have to brake on time as if too late and you hit the hole with brakes on - front fork might bottom out.
On KTM you want to slow down, and then go full power through the problem lightening the front - rear WP shock with 18 inches wheel will stand every abuse.
All in all - i can be faster offroad on KTM. Even if i go same speed it will feel faster as you going full on and rear don't complaining when front is very light at this point :-)

But there is a bad point - its expensive (mine is 1 year old with only 2700 miles) so you tend to avoid green lanes more often :-( And if you drop it - psychological pain is bigger.

Agree
 

"But there is a bad point - its expensive (mine is 1 year old with only 2700 miles) so you tend to avoid green lanes more often :-( And if you drop it - psychological pain is bigger."

This is one of the main reasons why I traded down from a �10,000 BMW to a �4000 Tenere. I have already taken the Ten places I would not take the BMW simply because I didn't want to drop the BMW or otherwise impact its resale value. I feel liberated!!

That's not to knock your choice though. Enjoy the KTM. It's an awesome machine and I've ridden with people who love theirs on and off road.

motul 15/50:happy birthday:

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This happened to me yesterday (as also stated here).

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This is some serious damage there :-/